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Press Release
Autocratic action of Home Ministry
against peoples' movements condemned
More than 300 organisations, action
groups and grassroots activists, journalists, writers express their solidarity
Patna, June 10, 2013: Expressing
solidarity with Indian Social Action Forum (INSAF), State's movements condemned
the irrational and autocratic action of Home Ministry.
It is noteworthy that INSAF and its
allies have been demanding that International Financial Institutions (IFIs)
like World Bank Group should be brought under rigorous legislative scrutiny. In
this regard it organized a People's Front Against IFIs during the 46th Annual
Board of Governors’ Meeting (AGM) of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) in Greater
Noida, Delhi during May 2-5, 2013.
Speakers wondered as to whether it is
a coincidence that the letter of suspension was received while the meeting of
Peoples Front Against IFIs was underway. At this meeting several Members of
Parliament came and expressed their support for making IFIs subservient to
legislative will. Providing the reason
for the suspension of the bank account wherein contributions are received under
Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, 2010, the letter of April 30, 2013. The
letter was received on May 4, 2013. In doing so it withheld the information on
the basis of which the suspension order has been issued.
The Ministry’s letter is in reaction
to INSAF’s case against the Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act 2010 in the
Supreme Court and the new rules formulated under which all democratic action
such as rallies, demonstrations, protests etc. are prohibited. The Ministry
should have waited for Supreme Court’s verdict instead of curtailing the
constitutional rights to resist and protest to defend rights within the
constitutional framework. Such an
impatient act of the Ministry through subordinate legislation and invoking of
Section 13 curbs the right to freedom to protest and express dissenting voices.
INSAF has played an important role in
such people oriented struggles. If giving support in getting posters, banners
and booklets printed, their distribution, bearing expenses for their display
and saying things in defence of democracy becomes a political activity because
of which your livelihood can be snatched, then it raises a very serious
question: Is there any democracy in this country or not? The fundamental right
to free expression under Article 19 (A) that we keep reciting, does it have any
meaning?
Social organizations and movements of
the state demanded a review and withdrawal of the order of suspension of the
FCRA account of INSAF. INSAF and its allies are always engaged in defending
democratic rights of deprived communities and in strengthening secular spirit
of the nation. It is incomprehensible as to how such work in genuine public
interest is deemed to be against public interest.
INSAF was created, post-Babri Masjid
demolition, so that public consciousness could be raised on issues related to
communalism, globalization and divisive politics.
The speakers denounced the double
standard of the government is quite visible. It is so beholden to foreign
direct investment (FDI) but it is acting against the unification of resistance
which is globally vibrant gives meaning to democracy.
Freezing of bank account cannot
stifle democratic voice of dissent. Our right to resistance against right wing
politics and economics is guaranteed by constitution. The policies of
international financial institutions like World Bank Group remain a threat to
democracy and we will resist it in public interest. How can being prejudicial
to public interest be deemed a ground for suspension when the democratic
practice is based on the prejudices about the public interest?
At the conference a statement endorsed by more
than 300 organisations, action groups and grassroots activists, journalists,
writers etc. was also released. The statement expresses its solidarity with the
stand of INSAF in asserting the constitutional right of every citizen of India
to participate in governance, which includes the right to question, challenge
and oppose the policies of the state through peaceful, non-violent and
democratic means.
The speakers stressed the need to
visit the FCRA, 1976 and the amendments done to it in 2010 as well as the Rules
formulated in 2011. A look at this will expose the real intent of the
government as well as its repressive politics in the garb of stopping/curbing
foreign funding. The new amendments to the FCRA done in 2010, especially its
Rule 3, are highly controversial and are very relevant in understanding the
current context and controversy. It says that activities of any organization
which habitually engages itself in or employs common methods of political
action like Bandh or hartal (strike), Rasta
Roko (stopping trafffic), Rail Roko (Stopping Trains) or Jail Bharo (fill up
jails) in support of public causes will be deemed as political in nature even
if it is not a political party. The government, of course, has reserved the
right to define or designate those organizations which will fall in this
category. Such organizations cannot be recipients of foreign funding.
INSAF has challenged these very legal
provisions on 5th August 2011 in the Delhi High Court but its writ petition was
rejected on 16 September 2011. Subsequently, INSAF filed the same writ in the
Supreme Court of India which was admitted. The Supreme Court has asked the
Government to file a reply which it has not filed till date. It is interesting
and ironic that while INSAF challenged the provisions of the FCRA which curb
funding of organizations by designating their activities as political in
nature, INSAF itself has been made a very first example of such prosecution and
its bank accounts sealed by the govt this month in the name of political
activities.
The Government wants to rein in
peoples struggles related to land, forests, water and for dignity going on all
over India from Tamil Nadu to Kashmir. It also wants to curb all the basic
facilities available to such organizations & individuals.
The speakers included Santosh
Upadhyaya, Bandi Adhikar Andolan, Bihar, Ranjeev Kumar, Social Activist, Irfan
Ahmed, Janadhikar Sangharsh Samiti, Bihar and Gopal Krishna, Citizens Forum for
Civil Liberties (CFCL)
The press conference was organised on
June 10, 2013 from 10-11.30 AM at the Lower Conference Hall of Indian Medical
Association (IMA) Building, Dr A K N Singh Path, South East of Gandhi Maidan,
Patna.
For further information: Irfan Ahmed, Janadhikar Sangharsh
Samiti, Mb: 9431454109Santosh Upadhyaya, Bandi Adhikar Andolan, Mb:8986463504, ,
Gopal Krishna, CFCL, Mb: 09818089660
Resources:
http://insafvsfcra.blogspot.
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